The Colorado state House on Wednesday passed a bill that would seek to ban new pet stores from selling puppies and kittens over near-united opposition from the chamber’s GOP caucus.
A bill that would ban new pet stores from selling puppies and kittens, an attempt that proponents say would curtail trafficking from puppy and kitten mills, saw major changes Thursday in the House Agriculture, Livestock and Water Committee. House Bill 1102 passed on an 7-4 party-line vote and is now headed to the full House.
There are about a dozen pet stores in Colorado licensed to sell puppies and kittens, and only nine, all along the Front Range, do so on a regular basis, according to testimony during a nearly five-hour hearing Monday.
As introduced, the bill requires pet stores to provide customers with the pet s price, breeder information, the cost of financing the sale, if needed, as well as requiring that information for advertisements.